How do you fill the yawning chasm that arises after you finish a great book or a long group read? Is it a time of excitement and possibility, or a daunting and overwhelming trial? Fresh off of finishing several doorstops ourselves, we discuss how we approach what we want to read next.
Summer Book Club
The Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is coming up fast! This year we are only choosing from William Trevor novels. After losing for the last two years, he will not lose again! But what will the book be? As in the past, we will be holding a vote over on Twitter / X! Watch my account on May 21!
The Books:
The Children of Dynmouth (1976)
Fools of Fortune (1983)
Felicia’s Journey (1994)
The Story of Lucy Gault (2002)
Dates:
Voting starts May 21 and runs through the early hours of May 25 for us in the mountain time zone.
We will announce the winner in the next episode!
The episode discussing the winner will be Episode 86, coming out on August 8.
Shownotes
Books
The Peregrine, by J.L. Carr
Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft
A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
Butcher’s Crossing, by John Williams
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young
Ulysses, by James Joyce
The Ambassadors, by Henry James
Tone, by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno
The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse
Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald
The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton
Urne Burial, by Robert Burton
Reinhardt’s Garden, by Mark Haber
The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
Silas Marner, by George Eliot
The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope
O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia, by Rebecca West
Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum, translated by Basil Creighton with revisions by Margot Bettauer Dembo
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, by Anne De Marcken
The Peasants, by Władysław Reymont, translated by Anna Zaranko
Parade’s End, by Ford Madox Ford
Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley
The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Benjamin Moser
The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Katrina Dodson
Too Much of Life, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson
The Murderer, by Roy Heath
The Oppermans, by Lion Feuchtwanger, translated by James Cleugh with revisions by Joshua Cohen
Green Equinox, by Elizabeth Mavor
Twice Lost, by Phyllis Paul
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, by Manuel Puig, translated by Susan Jill Levine
Elena Knows, by Claudio Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle
A Little Luck, by Claudio Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle
Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee
A Dance to the Music of Time, by Anthony Powell
Anniversaries, by Uwe Johnson, translated by Damion Searls
The Extinction of Irene Rey, by Jennifer Croft
The House on the Strand, by Daphne Du Maurier
Links
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